The offers came shortly after the Lions won their second straight Class AA boys basketball title.

“It blew my mind,” CPA boys coach Drew Maddux said. “We were at Red Robin in Murfreesboro — our whole team, we were eating last night after we left the arena and my phone rang, and it was Robert Kirby, associate head coach under Johnny Jones at LSU. They’ve been to every game at the state tournament in Murfreesboro, and they came to our practice Wednesday at our school.”

Maddux said he has never heard of a major college offering scholarships to four players from the same high school on the same day.

“Once again, it just speaks to the specialness of the group,” Maddux said. “So when people see them play they have all sacrificed so much individually for the collective being of the group. My whole message to them since they were younger was just trust the process. If you sell out to the group individually, you’ll get infinite returns individually. So they’ve all bought into that.”

Maddux said it was incredible to see the joy on Allsmiller’s and Bonds’ faces because they haven’t got as much attention from the recruiters as Lindsey and Blackwell. Lindsey has 19 offers, and Blackwell has nine.

The school colors for CPA and LSU are the same: purple and gold.

“That’s what he told the kids — ‘You guys can just not change your clothes or your family’s clothes. They already have purple in their closets, so you might as well just continue that on,’ ” Maddux said.